India, Dec. 1 -- Mallikarjun Kharge's concern over former vice president and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar's sudden resignation on Monday drew Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) retort as its MPs slammed the Congress president for mentioning an unrelated event while welcoming CP Radhakrishnan as chairman of the upper house in the first day of Parliament Winter Session.

Mallikarjun Kharge, welcoming chairman CP Radhakrishnan on his first day in the Rajya Sabha on behalf of the Opposition, assured of our cooperation in the conduct of proceedings but also referred to the unexpected and sudden exit of Jagdeep Dhankhar, which he said is "unprecedented in the annals of Parliamentary history".

Dhankhar, who had resigned from the post of Vi...